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STATISTICS AND SOCIAL CONDITIONS OF THE BOROUGH.
Area (acres): Land, 2,554 5. Water, 50. Total, 2,604 5.
Population—Registrar-General's estimate (Mid 1944) 48,970
Number of inhabited houses according to Rate Book 13,122
Rateable value £419,142
Sum produced by a penny rate £1,630
The Council control the following parks and open spaces:—
Southall Park 26 acres.
Recreation Ground 18 acres.
Manor House Grounds 2 acres.
Norwood Green 7.25 acres.
Frogmore Green 35 acre.
Wolf Green 18 acre.
Wolf Fields 3.33 acres.
Southall Municipal Sports Ground 20 acres.
Jubilee Park 11.13 acres.
Durdans Park 29 5 acres.
Viaduct Field 4.22 acres.
Dairy Meadow 6.21 acres.
Swimming Bath Site 10.5 acres.
West Middlesex Golf Course 136.16 acres.
I am indebted to Mr. J. B. Thomson, the Engineer and Surveyor, for the above
information.
For general administrative purposes and for the main statistical purposes of this
report the district is divided into six Wards with boundaries as detailed in previous
annual reports.
The majority of the houses in the district are occupied by good class working
people, chiefly engaged in the local factories and workshops. These include food, jam,
and chemical works, engineering, hosiery, paint, dye and wood works, laundries, etc.
There are no trades carried on which are at present scheduled as offensive trades.
DEATHS AND DEATH RATE
Whole District.
Total deaths, 443 (Males, 239, Females, 204).
Crude Death Rate, 9 04.
For extracts from vital statistics and causes of death see Appendix Tables II and III.
A marked decrease in the total number of deaths within the Borough occurred during
1944, and the death rate was lower by 10 per cent. The analysis of the causes of death
showed a satisfactory decrease in the number of deaths from tuberculosis, 20 in 1944 as
compared with 40 in 1943. The persistent increase in the deaths from cancer noted over
the past few years was not maintained during 1944. The reduction was from 97 deaths
from cancer in 1943 to 69 in 1944.
There was a slight increase in the number of deaths from intra-cranial vascular
lesions amongst elderly people. This may be the result of war strain, but the deaths from
heart disease and respiratory troubles were not increased.
The total number of deaths registered of persons belonging to the district and
dying within the district at all ages and from all causes was 202 (males 99 and females
103). For statistical purposes it is necessary to add to this figure the deaths of persons
ordinarily resident in the district who died in various London Hospitals, the Hillingdon
County Hospital, other Middlesex County Hospitals and elsewhere outside the district.
These "outside" deaths were 241 in number (males 140 and females 10l). The total
number of deaths therefore belonging to the district was 443.
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